Dr Pádraic Whyte B.A. (Dublin), Ph.D. (Dublin)
Assistant Professor
Co-Director MPhil in Children's Literature
Head of Junior Freshman
Dr Pádraic Whyte is Assistant Professor of English and co-director of the Masters programme in Children’s Literature at the School of English. He is author of Irish Childhoods: Children’s Fiction and Irish History (2011). He lectures on a range of topics at undergraduate and postgraduate level including critical approaches to children’s literature, Irish children’s literature, space and place in children’s literature, and Young Adult fiction. In November 2012 he delivered The 2012 Betsy Beinecke Shirley Lecture on American Children’s Literature at Yale University. His talk, ‘Navigating New York City in Children’s Books; A Whistle-Stop Tour’, drew on the work of numerous authors and illustrators from Margaret Wise Brown to Brian Selznick, and traced the shared relationship between literature and the city in the context of urban transformation in the 20th and 21st centuries. He is currently co-editing a volume on New York City and Children’s Literature (Routledge, forthcoming).
Recent publications include 'Children’s Literature in 19th Century Ireland' in James Murphy (ed.) The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. IV (2012) and ‘Young Adult Fiction and Youth Culture' in Valerie Coghlan and Keith O’Sullivan (eds.) Irish Children’s Literature: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (2011). His current research focuses on New York City and children’s literature, The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books, the links between Ireland, America and children’s literature, and also on 19th Century literature for children in Ireland. He is happy to hear from prospective research students with an interest in The Pollard Collection of Children’s Books, children’s literature, and/or children’s film.
He is a Research Associate at the Children’s Research Centre, TCD. He is the Chair of the CBI Children’s Book of the Year Awards 2013 and, recently, he worked as curator for the Telling Tall and Tiny Tales literature programme at The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children.
Books
New York City and Children’s Literature, Pádraic Whyte and Keith O’Sullivan (eds.) (London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
Irish Childhoods: Children’s Fiction and Irish History (Cambridge Scholars, 2011).
Chapters in Books
Children’s Literature in 19th Century Ireland in James Murphy (ed.) The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol. IV, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
Coming of Age and Youth Culture, in Valerie Coghlan and Keith O’Sullivan (eds.) Irish Children’s Literature: New Perspectives on Contemporary Writing (Routledge Series on Children’s Literature and Culture: 2011).
Essays/Articles
Teenage Tantrums and Territorial Traumas; Mark O’Sullivan’s ‘Melody for Nora’, in Valerie Coghlan and Mary Shine Thompson (eds.) Studies in Children’s Literature; Divided Worlds (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007)
American Dreams and Irish Myths: John Sayles’s ‘The Secret of Roan Inish’, in John Hill and Kevin Rockett (eds.) Studies in Irish Film (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006)
Escape From Fantasy Ireland; Martin Duffy’s ‘The Boy From Mercury’, in John Hill and Kevin Rockett (eds.) Film History and National Cinema (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005)
Wars of Independence: The Construction of Irish Histories in the Work of Gerard Whelan and Siobhán Parkinson, in Celia Keenan and Mary Shine Thompson (eds.) Studies in Children’s Literature 1500-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004)
Validating The Veracity: Narrative Voice and the Construction of Authentic Histories in Joan O’Neill’s ‘Daisy Chain War’, inNew Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship Vol. 10, No. 1 (London: Routledge, 2004)
Reports
Elizabeth Nixon, Pádraic Whyte, Joe Buggy & Sheila Greene, Discourses on Sexual Responsibility, Fatherhood and Masculinity Among Young Men from Lower Socio-Economic Groups (Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency, 2010)
Other Publications
James Patterson and Reading for Boys, in Inis Magazine (Dublin: Children’s Books Ireland, Winter 2009)
Reviews for Estudios Irlandeses, the scholarly electronic journal of AEDEI (Spanish Association for Irish Studies), March 2006. www.estudiosirlandeses.org.
Adaptation and Authenticity; Filming Children’s Literature, in Inis Magazine (Dublin: Children’s Books Ireland, Summer 2004)
Contact:
Dr Pádraic Whyte
School of English
Room 4083
Arts Building
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Tel: 00353 1 8961224
Email: whytepa@tcd.ie